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Correspondence providing information about the Call to the Nation

Catalogue reference: Coggan 190

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Coggan 190
Title
Correspondence providing information about the Call to the Nation
Date
1975
Description

Includes internal memoranda regarding the Call, papers relating to meetings of the Ad Hoc Group on Evangelism and the Evangelism Executive Committee, correspondence relating to media coverage and the launch of the Call, to a letter from the Archbishops to be read in churches on 19 Oct 1975, to the 'October event', to the response card published in newspapers and to Days of Prayer. Correspondents include the Rt Revd Cuthbert Bardsley, Bishop of Coventry (ff.1-2), Revd Canon J G Hunter (ff.4, 6, 18, 26, 128-129, 134, 136-137, 161, 191), Richard Wood MP (ff.5, 7-11, 16), the Most Revd Richard Wimbush, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church (ff.45-46, 78, 150), Harry Morton, General Secretary of the BCC (ff.47-48, 156, 158), Cardinal Heenan, Archbishop of Westminster (ff.49-50), the Most Revd Stuart Blanch, Archbishop of York (ff.51-52, 72), the Revd John Poulton (ff.53-60, 79-81, 85-92), the Rt Revd John Habgood, Bishop of Durham (ff.64-66, 124-126, 139-140), the Rt Revd Maurice Wood, Bishop of Norwich (ff.107, 127), the Rt Revd Mervyn Stockwood, Bishop of Southwark (ff.112, 138), the Rt Revd Gerald Ellison, Bishop of London (f.123), the Rt Revd James Matheson (ff.131-132, 145), the Rt Revd Kenneth Skelton, Bishop of Lichfield (ff.141, 159-160), the Rt Hon Jeremy Thorpe MP (f.184), the Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher MP (f.185), and the Rt Hon Harold Wilson MP (f.186).

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Lambeth Palace Library
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Correspondence providing information about the Call to the Nation